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From the AP, a truly baffling attempt at analyzing the Mess O’ Potamia: Only Iraqis can win the war. With an intriguing headline like that, I had to read it. I was brimming with questions: Is the AP’s military writer promoting a U.S. defeat? Which Iraqis, exactly, are capable of winning (and who are we […]

More mash-uppery. Thanks for all the downloads thus far, folks! Hope this one suits you, as well. Kind of an unusual Radiohead song to use, but I think it fits Missy’s stylings.

Where I End and Gossip Begins

[And yeah, in case you can’t tell, there is a theme developing — I’m […]

First, they came for the wimmins: partial birth abortion bans are upheld.
Next, the uppity negros: Roberts actually writes “The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race” in a decision against even the barest hint of affirmative action. We all see where that one […]

File under “shocking, the opposite of:” the President rejected Congress’s subpoena for documents related to the firing of federal prosecutors.
According to our sources at the Capitol, Bush’s response contained only the following homage to PAB:

Or it felt that way, anyhow.
In an earlier attempt to beg out of Congressional oversight, Cheney denied […]

Slim-Fast’s new celebrity spokesperson is tall, slender Rachel Hunter. She’s never tried the diet drink herself, but she’s darn tootin’ sure it’s a good thing: “I haven’t started taking Slim-Fast,” she says, “My message is more that I agree with what they’re saying.”*
Not that meal replacements are ever a good idea, but even Newsweek seems […]

Have you noticed all those terrible storms that we’ve started to encounter as a result of warmer oceans? And all those rising sea levels that threaten the existence of major cities around the globe? And just how generally fucked we all may be as a result of global warming?
Well, law firms have, too. […]

How exciting! The CIA has released 700 pages of “responses from CIA employees to a 1973 directive from Director of Central Intelligence James Schlesinger asking them to report activities they thought might be inconsistent with the Agency’s charter.” Thanks to the FOIA Electronic Reading Room, you can view the declassified documents from the comfort of […]

I was a little suprised to find an “Abortion vs Adoption” story set on MSN in the same place they usually reserve for the hard-hitting “How to tell if he (she)’s into you” investigative reports. With MSN being what it is, I was suprised by how much they failed to disappoint me. […]

Recently I made a few mash-ups that helped me learn my way around the form. Now I’ve created one that makes me feel genuinely proud.

Fake Plastic Changes

As always, feedback is encouraged. Enjoy!

Apparently, ABC/Disney and Fox have more in common than their fanboy crush on our heart-throb prezzie. Based upon recent on-air snafus, both networks also seem to have a bad case of the “they all look the same”s.
Shortly after Fox, ahem, accidentally played footage of John Conyers while discussing the William Jefferson indictment, […]

For your Friday amusement, I come bearing some classic songs rendered in true WTF style.
Tang Dynasty, a Chinese metal band, covers “The Internationale”:

A lovely arrangement of anarchist anthem “A Las Barricadas”:

And to top it off, an inexplicable reggae cover of the Soviet anthem:

The New York Times ran a sympathetic article on “freegans” - hardcore anti-consumerist dumpster divers. Lots of pictures of fun young people scavanging perfectly good shit in the dumpsters by NYU after the affluent students toss things (like working iPods and television sets) rather than move them at the end of the semester. […]